{"id":910335,"date":"2026-04-22T04:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/910335\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T04:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:30:14","slug":"us-nuclear-chief-escorted-out-pentagon-as-probe-launched-into-sensitive-leak-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/910335\/","title":{"rendered":"US nuclear chief &#8216;escorted out Pentagon&#8217; as probe launched into &#8216;sensitive leak&#8217; | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US nuclear chief Andrew Hugg was dramatically &#8220;escorted out of the Pentagon&#8221; this evening, according to reports, amid an investigation into what is being described as a &#8220;sensitive leak&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Army Spokesperson Cynthia O. Smith said: \u201cWe have placed Mr. Hugg on administrative leave while we conduct a thorough investigation into this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It comes after independent journalist James O&#8217;Keefe released video footage online that reportedly showed the army chief disclosing &#8220;sensitive&#8221; information.<\/p>\n<p>It is reported that Hugg was caught on camera discussing US military actions, nuclear policy, and classified topics in a public setting.<\/p>\n<p>Former Army colonel Douglas MacGregor posted: &#8220;US Nuclear Chief Andrew Hugg ESCORTED out of the Pentagon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US nuclear chief Andrew Hugg was dramatically &#8220;escorted out of the Pentagon&#8221; this evening, according to reports, amid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[255843,2993,7382,1020,25781,12,8723,255844,26],"class_list":["post-910335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-andrew-hugg","tag-defence","tag-global-security","tag-inquests","tag-investigation","tag-news","tag-pentagon","tag-sensitive-leak","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116446483399769777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}